As a person with type 1 diabetes who’s been trying to lose weight for as long as I can remember, one of the things I often hear from other PWDs is that it takes twice as long to lose weight with diabetes as it does without. Now, I’ve checked with my expert sources and they tell me that isn’t true, but that doesn’t mean losing weight with diabetes is a walk in the park. Jessica…
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As much as I may not want to admit it, the confession I need to make is that I’m a guy who is an emotional eater.
There’s no denying it. Sure, I have thought this to myself many times before and I’ve probably mumbled it out loud when no one else was around. But this is the first time I’ve actually written it down and shared it with the online world.
That is a huge…
‘Twas nearly the night before Christmas, and the Diabetes Community got a surprise …
We {heart} our regular contributor Jerry King, an accomplished cartoonist who creates more than 200 cartoons each month for websites, magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, etc., worldwide.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
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Like us, you may wonder what qualifies a CDE to win the national award for Diabetes Educator of the Year?
Joanne Rinker was recently named Diabetes Educator of the Year for 2013 (they’re picked in advance of the coming year). She’s a North Carolina-based dietician-educator who’s helped build a unique program for spreading diabetes education across her state. She also focuses on the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss, AND she works as a coach…
When we’re diagnosed with diabetes, we hear about something called a “patient-centered healthcare team,” where the patient is supposedly the captain and the endocrinologist, certified diabetes educator, dietician, eye doctor, primary care doctor and other specialists are all supporting team members.
Or so they say. Truth is, “healthcare teams” are rarely set up like this.
As we all know, the patient is rarely in charge of anything and medical professionals are rarely working in harmony.…